james 13 - jesus ownership, your ownership - ptr vetty gutierrez - 10am morning service
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JESUS’
OWNERSHIP,
YOUR
stewardship
James 5: 1-6 1 Now listen, you rich people, weep andwail because of the misery that is comingon you.
2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths haveeaten your clothes.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Theircorrosion will testify against you and eatyour flesh like fire. You have hoardedwealth in the last days.
James 5: 1-6 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay theworkers who mowed your fields are cryingout against you. The cries of theharvesters have reached the ears of theLord Almighty.5 You have lived on earth in luxury andself-indulgence. You have fattenedyourselves in the day of slaughter.6 You have condemned and murdered theinnocent one, who was not opposing you.
Perceptions
SinWe sin against God.
SufferingWhen we’re hurting, struggling,
weeping, and dying, we need comfort, we need encouragement, we need
love, grace, and mercy, and assistance from God and God’s people.
Stewardship is really about all the things that God
entrusts to us. Our time, our talent, our treasure, the totality of our life and how we invest it to God’s glory and others’
good.
Four categories
of wealth
in the bible
GODLY POOR
GODLY RICH
UNGODLY POOR
UNGODLY RICH
Wealth
today
Even globally, we live at a standard
and level of living that we just want
to be very careful that we think
biblically, we think historically, that
we don’t just think economically, or
socially, or selfishly.
THE GODLY
POOR & THE
UNGODLY RICH
Here’s the big idea: You can’t take it
with you, but you can send it on
ahead. That’s what Jesus says.
Store up your treasures in heaven.
You can send it on ahead.
Matthew 6:19-20 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
By sharing, by being generous,
God, who in the end does all the
accounting, will reward you
eternally for your faithfulness
presently. That’s what he’s saying.
HOARDING &
DEFRAUDING
So, the first problem is HOARDING. It’s not that you don’t have a right to
take your wealth and to purchase something, but if you have things you
don’t even need, if you have things you don’t even use, does not your heart
open to love, to help, and to serve, and to bless others? If not, then you don’t have the heart of God because that’s
God’s heart.
God’s heart
is a giving heart.
God’s heart
is a sharing heart.
God’s heart
is a glad heart.
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
The labourers that he’s speaking of do
love the Lord, and they’re receiving
tremendous injustice and so they are
crying out to the Lord. These are
hardworking guys who are supposed to
get paid at the end of the day so they
can go home and provide dinner for
their family. And they worked hard all
day and they didn’t get paid.
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
OUR CREATOR
ENDOWED US
WITH RIGHTS
PRINCIPLES Of
WORLDLY
OWNERSHIP
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING. I DO NOT BELONG
TO THE LORD
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
NOTHING I HAVE
BELONGS
TO THE LORD
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
I DESERVE
ALL THAT
I WORK FOR
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING. I ONLY ANSWER
TO MYSELF
That’s the underlying ideology that James is going after in the ungodly rich.
It’s this issue of ownership. What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine.
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING. I BELONG TO THE
LORD
Romans 1:6 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
Don’t think it’s a bad thing. Jesus is way better in control than you. He’s
way better in charge than you. Jesus died for me. He paid a price
to purchase me. We’re his possession. We belong to him.
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING. EVERYTHING I HAVE
BELONGS TO HIM
Everything we have belongs to him. It’s his ownership, my stewardship.
Everything belongs to the Lord.
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING. EVERYTHING
I HAVE IS A GIFT
Everything we have is a gift. When the sense of entitlement is gone, the sense of presumption is gone, and the sense of awe, wonder, and
gratitude has come. Christians should always live, to some degree,
in that state—that it’s all a gift.
Jesus just gives. He gives his righteousness, he gives his holiness, he gives his love, his grace, his mercy, and his forgiveness. He goes to the cross, he gives his body, he gives his blood.
He gives it all. He gives. Everything you have spiritually is a gift. Everything we have physically is a gift. Everything we
have relationally—it’s a gift.
The people in your life are a gift. The opportunities in your life are a
gift. The possessions in your life are a gift. The resources in your life are a gift. The days in your life—they’re a gift. And the greatest gift of all is
salvation
So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
I AM A
STEWARD
OF THE LORD
If we belong to the Lord, and everything we have belongs to the Lord, and everything we have is a gift from the Lord, then we are a
steward of the Lord. And a steward recognizes and realizes that if it’s Jesus’ stuff, he ultimately gets to
decide what I do with it.
PRINCIPLES
OF GODLY
STEWARDSHIP
GENEROUS
PARENTS
This is why James is so angry, and he’s so frustrated. Because what he has is,
he has godly, poor people who are generous stewards, and they’re good givers, and then he’s got ungodly, rich people who are thinking like owners and not stewards, and they’re takers,
and they’re not givers, and they’re stealing and defrauding, and he sees
the injustice in it all.
The anecdote to hoarding and defrauding is giving. It neutralizes
it. It disarms it. It defeats it.
Give to get a blessing. Here’s what we’re saying: “Give to be a
blessing.” God gives, and God’s blessed by his giving, and God is
joyful in his giving. That’s why the Bible says that God loves a cheerful giver. God is a cheerful giver. You don’t give to get a blessing; you
give to be a blessing.
You know what he didn’t need to hear? A prosperity sermon. “That God will return it a hundredfold.
That’s going to be a lot more loot. You’ll add your—” That’s wrong.
You don’t give to get a blessing; you give to be a blessing. And the
blessing is seeing other people blessed.
God gives generously, lavishly. God enjoys giving. God loves giving and his joy is in being a blessing. And then when he saves us and he
entrusts to us as stewards, as we get an opportunity to give
generously, it’s not giving to get, it’s getting to give.
DON’T WASTE
AN OPPORTUNITY
FOR JOY
Wouldn’t it be great if you could feed your family? Wouldn’t it be great if we could give to the Lord, give to the poor, help others, and be generous? Wouldn’t it be great if you could employ people? And if you do, don’t do James 5. And if God is generous with us, we want to be
generous with others. We don’t care how much you make, but God cares
what you do with it faith
FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Vitaliano C. GutierrezFCC Main, San Mateo, Rizal, PH
10AM Morning ServiceJune 5, 2016
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